Research shows low lead in body can cause spontaneous abortion
...eadProficiency Testing Program, analyzed the blood samples for lead. AnotherMexican laboratory conducted analyses for signs of infection. Women averagedabout 11 micrograms of lead per deciliter of blood, which is similar to averagelevels in the United States in the 1970s. Researchers recorded whose p...Study suggests why estrogen not helpful against heart disease
... author of the study, took samples from patientsundergoing coronary artery bypass surgery. Tissue samples were collected from the patients' aortas, the saphenousveins and ...Is drug abuse, not brutality, behind some deaths in custody?
...f ED, says Karch. But this can only be detected if samples of brain tissue areremoved and frozen within 12 hours of death. The problem is that autopsies arefrequently delayed for more than a day, and even then, brain tissue is notroutinely analysed. Karch has waded deeper into controversy by contend......f adolescents functionsduring HIV infection. Blood samples were drawn from 243 HIV-positive and HIV-negative adolescents at16 clinical sites throughout the United States participating in the AdolescentMedicine HIV/AIDS Research Network, established by the National Institutes ofHealth and the Health Resources...MGH researchers identify angiogenesis inhibitor in gallbladder cancer
...esis suppression. Finally the researchers studied samples of human gallbladder tumors frompatients treated a...alyzed them for the presence of TGF-beta-1. In all samples studied, even though they were different grades of cancer,TGF-beta-1 was present. It also was found...Gene responsible for cerebral venous abnormalities found
...ene responsiblefor the disorder. Using DNA samples collected from CCM families, genetic researchers atDuke were able to accurately predict the approximate location of the geneticmutation on chromosome 7. With DNA sequencing of that chromosomal location madeavailable through the Human Genome Project, ...National Cancer Institute awards UNC-CH $5 million for unique prostate cancer studies
...sis of genes and proteins in both animal and human samples through a systemrelying on standard and fluorescence microscopy and image analysis usingsoftware developed at UNC-CH to measure molecules of interest in prostatetissue. "In this country, almost 40,000 men are still dying of advanced prostatec...Green tea shows antioxidant benefits in human plasma
...beverages for 12hours prior to the testing. Blood samples were taken one hour before and afterthe catechin ingestion. Testing following the ingestion showed that catechin was incorporated into thesubjects' plasma and that their phosphatidylcholine hydroperoxide (PC-OOH, arecognized marker of oxidative inj...Discarded thymus tissue provides life for infants with DiGeorge Syndrome
... thymus has been in culture long enough, and blood samples fromthe donor baby have been collected and checked for infections, the pediatricsurgeons take over. They lay the thymus strips side by side, "like bacon in afrying pan," deep down into the muscle of the DiGeorge baby's thigh. "It's thebiggest muscle...National study focuses on families of people with diabetes and obesity
...he body. "DNA will be collected from blood samples to do analysis of specificgenes known to be associ... Bowden will coordinate the collection of the DNA samples from the threeclinics and family members. The DNA samples then will be run through a genomescreen by...New DNA chip method could improve cancer diagnosis
..."class predictor" that could classify new, unknown samples based on alreadyknown differences in the two types...e activity ofnearly 7,000 genes in the bone marrow samples of 38 patients. This providedscientists massive amounts of complex raw data. The fundamental chall...Yale and state researchers develop improved test for new tick disease
...h the old test a person could test two dozen blood samples aday," Dr. IJdo said. "With the new test it is eas...s. "This isto encourage physicians to submit blood samples so that we can get a better ideahow prevalent the disease is," Dr. IJdo said. It is not yet k...Emotional and physical toll of being poor
...Health: Researchers will interview representative samples of families to examine the connection between neighborhood and community characteristics, economic status, race and ethnicity, attitudes and perceptions and how those factors contribute to poor or better health. Life Course Development, Psycho-socia...Chromosome changes predict more deadly prostate tumors
...more deadly tumor type. Researchers studied tissue samples of 144 men who were operated on for advanced prostate cancer between 1966 and 1987. They compared this information with the patients cancer status, obtained from a long-term follow-up study. They found that men with a specific set of abnormalities (i...Southeast appears to have a unique type of Lyme disease
...xycycline hyclate, photographs, biopsies and blood samples were taken for a complete series of tests. Tests included the sophisticated polymerase chain reaction assay for spirochete DNA in biopsy samples; the PCR was positive in five of 23 cases. "These data say yes, there is some Lyme disease here that me...Annals Of Internal Medicine - tip sheet for November 2, 1999
...stream infections, but positive results from blood samples drawn thisway may require confirmation, a new study found (Article, p. 641)....UF study shows contemporary method accurately predicts cancer risk
...e examined between 1990 and 1997, categorizing the samples using the standard criteria employed to assess cellular changes associated with breast cancer development. The patients did not have breast cancer, and the lesions ranged from normal to highly atypical. Masood then tracked the patients' medical histo......estrogens, the researchers analyzed amniotic fluid samples of 54 pregnant women from the Los Angeles area. No...niotic fluid of female fetuses. The amniotic fluid samples were taken during routine amniocentesis between 16 and 20 weeks of gestation--after a baby's organs ...Antibiotic prescribing in local communities is linked to localised resistance
... antibiotic sensitivity tests on bacteria in urine samples that had been taken by general practitioners for the purposes of diagnosing urinary tract infections. Magee et al found that the correlation between the prescribing of certain antibiotics and resistance to those same antibiotics was often significant...Study casts doubt that melatonin goes down as age goes up: Older buyers take note
...chedules. At regular times, scientists took blood samples in order to assess melatonin production. "In our analysis, we did not find any statistically significant difference in nighttime melatonin concentrations between the young and older subjects, although our study does not address whether melatonin le...